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Jul. 8th, 2012 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
perennialanna1. As caulkhead mentioned, I had another baby. Three months ago today, in fact. After a horrible pregnancy, it was a fantastic birth (due to a lovely midwife who refused to declare me in labour until he was pretty much crowning, thereby sparing me all the high-risk protocols I was supposed to have and dreaded). In fact, if I could somehow skip the being pregnant bit, and the having a third child we can't afford financially or emotionally bit, I'd joyfully give birth again tomorrow.
2. This baby sleeps, and is happy to be dumped in a bouncy chair and ignored while I do things for at least half an hour at a time.
3. My pelvis has recovered like it was meant to last time. I can walk.
4. I am officially not diabetic now (although they want a fasting blood glucose once a year for the rest of my life, because I am at much greater risk of Type II). I am trying to get over my immediate response, which was to eat All The Cake, All The Ice Cream and All The Chocolate.
5. I have lost at least a quarter of my hair in the last month, possibly a third. That this is all perfectly normal for this stage post-pregnancy and it will grow back like last time is not reducing my general Hair Angst. I have actual bald patches at the moment. Fortunately, this summer head scarves are fairly easy to find.
6. As I said, this baby sleeps, and is to an extent self-amusing. I have time on my hands. So I'm trying to get a sourdough starter going again (the last one I tried developed bad moulds).
caulkhead mentioned, I had another baby. Three months ago today, in fact. After a horrible pregnancy, it was a fantastic birth (due to a lovely midwife who refused to declare me in labour until he was pretty much crowning, thereby sparing me all the high-risk protocols I was supposed to have and dreaded). In fact, if I could somehow skip the being pregnant bit, and the having a third child we can't afford financially or emotionally bit, I'd joyfully give birth again tomorrow.2. This baby sleeps, and is happy to be dumped in a bouncy chair and ignored while I do things for at least half an hour at a time.
3. My pelvis has recovered like it was meant to last time. I can walk.
4. I am officially not diabetic now (although they want a fasting blood glucose once a year for the rest of my life, because I am at much greater risk of Type II). I am trying to get over my immediate response, which was to eat All The Cake, All The Ice Cream and All The Chocolate.
5. I have lost at least a quarter of my hair in the last month, possibly a third. That this is all perfectly normal for this stage post-pregnancy and it will grow back like last time is not reducing my general Hair Angst. I have actual bald patches at the moment. Fortunately, this summer head scarves are fairly easy to find.
6. As I said, this baby sleeps, and is to an extent self-amusing. I have time on my hands. So I'm trying to get a sourdough starter going again (the last one I tried developed bad moulds).
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Date: 2012-07-09 11:33 am (UTC)My sourdough starter also went mouldy, and because they keep saying it will smell funny, it took me a long time to decide whether it was supposed to smell as funny as all that. One day I do intend to try again. I thought perhaps it got too hot but worry that the kitchen is just producing the wrong sort of spores.